I was wondering if any members here chant at home as part of your practice? The only chanting i do is at the local Thai temple but was thinking about bringing it home as part of my practice.

The heart of the path is SO simple. No need for long explanations. Give up clinging to love and hate, just rest with things as they are. That is all I do in my own practice. Do not try to become anything. Do not make yourself into anything. Do not be a meditator. Do not become enlightened. When you sit, let it be. When you walk, let it be. Grasp at nothing. Resist nothing. Of course, there are dozens of meditation techniques to develop samadhi and many kinds of vipassana. But it all comes back to this - just let it all be. Step over here where it is cool, out of the battle. - Ajahn Chah

Hi not me I only chant on retreat but I have thought about it, but feel it may distract from the purpose?I do on occasion play a reading from the suttas but that is about it!

Keep It Simple Stupid is the motto and I try to keep to it

This offering maybe right, or wrong, but it is one, the other, both, or neither!Blog,-Some Suttas Translated,Ajahn Chah."Others will misconstrue reality due to their personal perspectives, doggedly holding onto and not easily discarding them; We shall not misconstrue reality due to our own personal perspectives, nor doggedly holding onto them, but will discard them easily. This effacement shall be done."

bodom_bad_boy wrote:I was wondering if any members here chant at home as part of your practice? The only chanting i do is at the local Thai temple but was thinking about bringing it home as part of my practice.

Hi BBB, nice to meet you here, I sometimes chant at home, but not as much as I would like to do, due to misorganisation of my time, eg: and

When I chant at home, then:

- Tisarana / Namo Tassa- The Three Refuges- then depending on the day: the 5 or 8 precepts- Salutation to the Triple Gem - Ratanattaya Vandanaa- then Abhaya Gaathaa Paritta / Abhaya Gāthā The Danger-free Protection

sometimes some more

Then I close my chanting with - Tisarana / Namo Tassa- The Three Refuges(but I am not shure if this is usual to do so)